Amy E. Schwartz is Moment’s opinion and book editor.
Some issues dominate the news; others drift along under the radar. This is literally true of electronic surveillance, a worldwide and quickly growing force that could profoundly change our lives. ...
Robert Siegel, former host of NPR’s All Things Considered and Moment's special literary contributor shares his thoughts about the mob events at the U.S. Capitol and how these past few years remind him of the turmoil of 1968. He also reflects on the history of American rebellions and the challenges ...
When you become a book review editor, the first thing you notice is how many books get published every year,
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Harvard law professor Noah Feldman’s book about Arab political self-determination and self-destruction is called The Arab Winter: A Tragedy. And he really means it. Grief emanates from every line of this reevaluation of the Arab Spring, which revisits the hope followed by disaster in Egypt and Syria; the utopian Islamism ...
We asked our team of rabbis to weigh in. ...
In a bare room adjoining the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Asian Art, Chief Curator Massumeh Farhad places a virtual reality headset over her eyes. ...
Does time move differently for Jews? Does Judaism have its own view of time? ...
I Want You to Know We’re Still Here: A Post-Holocaust Memoir By Esther Safran Foer Tim Duggan Book $27.00, 226
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Zero Hour, the anti-climate-change group that Jamie S. Margolin founded two years ago when she was 16, calls itself “a movement of unstoppable youth.” ...
What do President Donald Trump and the religious right see in each other? ...
Something about watching civilization and its institutions collapse makes me nostalgic for the dystopian novels of my childhood. ...
Even in normal times, too many people suffer from FOMO, the fear of missing out, the result of attempting to live, as the kids say, “all the lives.” ...